Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
112
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Turkey
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
Ħello
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Grazzi
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Kif int?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
günaydın
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
lütfen
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
üzgünüm
Skużani!
Bye
Hoşçakal
Ċaw
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Qormi
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Malta
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Malta
How Many People Speak
480,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Not Present
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
92
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
Malti
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Malti
French Name
turc
maltais
German Name
Türkisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Maltese
Origin
c. 1350
c. 1470
Language Family
Turkic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Semitic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Maltese
Language Position
1925
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
tur
mlt
ISO 639 3
tur
mlt
ISO 639 6
tur
mlt
Glottocode
nucl1301
malt1254
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic